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Conversation

Building Influence: Broadcast Messages or Personal Touches?

Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media services allow one to reach out, make connections, and spread a message. Recently I was in a discussion with a few other social media professionals and one of them brought up the question of which was more influential: broadcasting a message that’s potentially seen by a large group [...]

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Twitter Launches Lists: Here’s a Photographer-Specific Example

As mentioned previously, Twitter is rolling out a new feature called lists. What is a Twitter list? A list allows a Twitter user to curate a selection of Twitter users surrounding a particular topic. Lists can be public or private, although they’ll be most useful in a public setting. Not every account has access to [...]

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Who Should Photographers Follow on Twitter?

This post in an excerpt from an upcoming white paper that I’ll be releasing shortly. Tentatively titled “An Introduction to Twitter for Photographers”, it will provide several pages of information on how photographers can use Twitter effectively. Look for the free white paper to be released in the next week or so. One of the [...]

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Chris Pirillo on Community

We hear so much about “community” as it relates to the web and social media… but what is community? Recently Chris Pirillo gave a great talk at WordCamp Seattle on the topic of community. I was in the audience and several of his points really resonated with me so I wanted to pass along a [...]

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Four Quick and Easy Blog Post Ideas

One of the challenges of blogging can be to come up with interesting topics. Whether you’re writing for clients or writing for peers, fresh topics are always needed. Here are four quick and easy ideas for a blog post: Write a post that answers an email message – If a client, customer, or peer sends [...]

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Pressing Publish Means You’re Half Done

This past weekend, I attended WordCamp Portland, a conference on blogging and the WordPress platform. Founding developer Matt Mullenweg led a Q&A discussion with the audience, and one thing he said struck a chord with me and my view on blogging, comments, and conversation. A couple of months ago, I said that if you’re blogging [...]

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A Tuesday Assignment: Leave a Comment for a Teacher

If you’re out there reading a variety of photo blogs, business blogs, or even blogging blogs, odds are that you’ve learned something useful from someone. Today I have a simple assignment: leave a comment on a blog post (or a few) that have taught you something. Let the author know specifically what you learned or [...]

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5 Tips to Become a Better Photographer via Twitter

Folks generally fall into one of two camps when thinking about Twitter: they either consider it useless drivel, or they find it very interesting. I’m guessing more of my readers are in the latter category than the former, so here’s some tips on becoming a better photographer (and photographer businessperson) by using Twitter. Maybe a [...]

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